Roman Behma
Contributor at Stealth Startup
United States
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Top SchoolRoman Behma is a software engineer and contributor with 10+ years building high-performance distributed systems and microservices, now focused on core blockchain protocol development and DeFi infrastructure. He has driven reliability and self-healing features in widely used projects such as Polygon’s Heimdall validator and contributed core-node functionality at Chainlink, demonstrating deep expertise in validator logic, oracle nodes, and blockchain tooling. As a former engineer at Polygon and Chainlink and ex-CTO/co-founder of Nerif Network, he blends hands-on engineering with product and architecture leadership across Layer 1 and tooling stacks. Roman routinely architects scalable, secure systems—implementing SSV/ETH2 integrations, remote block signing, and production-grade observability and testing. Trusted by multiple DeFi and L1 projects as a consultant, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade practices and a knack for making complex distributed protocols more resilient. An often-overlooked strength is his pattern of improving operational integrity through metrics-driven self-healing and configuration changes that prevent class failures in production.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Kharkiv national university of civil engineering and architectureKremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University
Русский, Украинский, English
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Github Skills (15)
chainlink10
staking10
solidity10
oracles10
oracle10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
daap9
json6
ajax6
ionic-framework6
php6
jquery6
angular6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:239 reviews, 36 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Roman contributed to the core functionalities of the Chainlink node, adding new configuration variables related to the KEEPER functionality. They also focused on improving the Feeds Manager connection status by adding an `IsConnected` field and implementing the appropriate checks. The user was responsible for storing bootstrap multiaddrs on a job proposal and implemented various changes related to the job proposal and feeds manager models.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
maticnetwork/heimdall
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Validator node for Polygon PoS
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Roman primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Polygon PoS validator node. Their work involved adding self-healing mechanisms for events like `StateSynced` and `StakeUpdate`, indicating a focus on reliability and data integrity. They also implemented metrics to monitor the self-healing processes and made changes to the configuration and templating files. Additionally, the user modified functions related to root chain event processing.
posvalidationethereumdappsproof-of-stake
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